Still alive....
I feel bad for Teri. Her father wont quit smoking. He has smoked his whole life and at this point, has had countless heart attacks and respiratory problems, carts around an oxygen tank, and always needs to be rushed to the hospital in the middle of the night because he cant breathe. She said she and her mother hid all of the lighters and ashtrays in the house amongst other tactics but it never stops him. Teri works two jobs and is constantly coming in to work exhausted due to having to rush him to the hospital for the umpteenth time, and having either her father insist she stay for moral support or her mother asking her to stay b/c she just "can't do it by herself". I swear, I dont know how people can be so selfish. I would never do that to my family.
Things have been going rather well until yesterday when I received a call from my mother informing me I have been summoned for jury duty on November 28th. I suppose it is my karma coming back to haunt me for mocking a co-worker about having to go just hours before. I hope hope hope hope I do not get chosen. It will be a poor Christmas indeed!!
There are some songs that stay with you for life. The first time I heard the "Dome Epais Le Jasmin" a.k.a. Flower Duet from the opera Lakme it was playing in the background of the movie American President (I think the scene where they are having dinner). Those two women's voices were so beautifully haunting and enchanting I could not get them out of my head. Riding in the car, taking a shower and trying to fall asleep, they were always singing incessantly in my ears.
Years later at my first after-party after Funky Techno Tribe at the Austin Music Hall 2000, the DJ pulled out Jonathan Peters present Luminaire "Flower Duet 99". There it was again, only this time in the form of an amazing dance track. I got that familiar lump in my throat at the sheer beauty of it and have always wanted the track since. I had several versions of it before my hard drive crashed...
*takes a moment of silence for that bleak, dark dark day*
....and have never again been able to find a version of it that lasted more than a minute or two.
Now I have found it on ebay! I will be so incredibly disappointed if I do not win it when the auction ends in 4 days. Twelve minutes of Flower Duet in all its glory!!! =D Hooray!!!
Perhaps now that I have actually updated, I can start work again.
Ciaos <3
p.s. This is also too cute not to post:
karizma512's LJ stalker is groovetx!groovetx is stalking you because they heard you are awesome in bed, and they want to find out. They are also in jail for murder!
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Things have been going rather well until yesterday when I received a call from my mother informing me I have been summoned for jury duty on November 28th. I suppose it is my karma coming back to haunt me for mocking a co-worker about having to go just hours before. I hope hope hope hope I do not get chosen. It will be a poor Christmas indeed!!
There are some songs that stay with you for life. The first time I heard the "Dome Epais Le Jasmin" a.k.a. Flower Duet from the opera Lakme it was playing in the background of the movie American President (I think the scene where they are having dinner). Those two women's voices were so beautifully haunting and enchanting I could not get them out of my head. Riding in the car, taking a shower and trying to fall asleep, they were always singing incessantly in my ears.
Years later at my first after-party after Funky Techno Tribe at the Austin Music Hall 2000, the DJ pulled out Jonathan Peters present Luminaire "Flower Duet 99". There it was again, only this time in the form of an amazing dance track. I got that familiar lump in my throat at the sheer beauty of it and have always wanted the track since. I had several versions of it before my hard drive crashed...
*takes a moment of silence for that bleak, dark dark day*
....and have never again been able to find a version of it that lasted more than a minute or two.
Now I have found it on ebay! I will be so incredibly disappointed if I do not win it when the auction ends in 4 days. Twelve minutes of Flower Duet in all its glory!!! =D Hooray!!!
Perhaps now that I have actually updated, I can start work again.
Ciaos <3
p.s. This is also too cute not to post:
karizma512's LJ stalker is groovetx!groovetx is stalking you because they heard you are awesome in bed, and they want to find out. They are also in jail for murder!
LJ Stalker Finder
From Go-Quiz.com